[tex-live] Line endings, TeX

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Tue Sep 29 18:35:31 CEST 2009


Dan Luecking <luecking at uark.edu> writes:

> Line endings have meaning. Well typeset text doesn't have lines
> running to arbitrary lengths.

TeX hard-wraps at 79 bytes, disregarding word boundaries, even
disregarding character boundaries where multi-byte characters are
involved.

That does not count as "well typeset" in my book.

-- 
David Kastrup


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